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Re: anti-.... or anti... ?

ieasy..i know you´re form Brazil.and so am I..we´ve been posting and stuff.. I´m glad to see you have been quite diligent at your postings..and so have I ..and when students ask me whether such prefixes are hyphenated or not I just say that it does not really matter so much, that they should just pay attention to what they come across when reading texts and so on...

Re: anti-.... or anti... ?

Originally Posted by Avalon

ieasy..i know you´re form Brazil.and so am I..we´ve been posting and stuff.. I´m glad to see you have been quite diligent at your postings..and so have I ..and when students ask me whether such prefixes are hyphenated or not I just say that it does not really matter so much, that they should just pay attention to what they come across when reading texts and so on...

That is probably good advice. The issue is clarity for the reader. When two I's come in sequence, the hyphen is often used, but nobody will expect a word with a double I. This is different with a double O or a double E, both of which occur frequently in English. For example a cooperative can be called a co-op. The hyphen is important to differentiate it from coop. If one writes "I live in a coop", it would read as a chicken's house. The word re-emerge might cause a stumble without the hyphen.

Re: anti-.... or anti... ?

Hi, Avalon.
First, thank you for your help, and to MikeNewyork too. Well, I live in Natal since 1996, but I'm from Belgium. I give English lessons too, and my students are pretty demanding. I also sometimes translate texts for university students. That's why my questions may look so detailed to some readers.

Re: anti-.... or anti... ?

Originally Posted by ieasy

Hi, Avalon.
First, thank you for your help, and to MikeNewyork too. Well, I live in Natal since 1996, but I'm from Belgium. I give English lessons too, and my students are pretty demanding. I also sometimes translate texts for university students. That's why my questions may look so detailed to some readers.